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Residents at a state-run center in Pueblo for the severely intellectually disabled were subjected to sexual assaults and ongoing physical abuse and neglect from 2012 to early 2016. Incidents were reported at a rate of about 150 each month.

At the height of the nation’s hysteria over Japanese Americans after the Pearl Harbor attack, Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr stood up to those threatening violence against people interned at the state’s concentration camp on the Eastern Plains.

For more than 20 years, John Hopper and his students have worked quietly in a remote corner of southeast Colorado to help ensure that the world doesn’t forget the Japanese internment camp located near Granada.